Sunday, June 29, 2008

Saturday, June 28, 2008

No need to panic, it's only a new film from the best animator we have: Hayao Miyazaki. It is called Ponyo on the Cliff or some such. If you haven't seen all of his other movies, you are simply wasting your time. No I am not kidding. I don't care if you are 5 or 50. Go see all of these movies immediately. Then get ready for this new movie.

Afanasy Nikitin

Afanasy Nikitin was the first Russian to explore India, which he wound up doing in about 1466.

In history books you will find very little about his dealings with the Shuisky sisters, or Alnus Rugosa, or Das Brick, because I made them up.

Ali Qushji and Perkin Warbeck and Jami the Persian Poet were real people, who sadly never really had anything to do with Russia or Afanasy Nikitin. The Kreml, while a real place, was probably not as fun as it appears herein.

So abandon all pretence of learning about historical Russia, ye who enter here.